Lace-curtain-display cabinet.



PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907.

G. B. WESTBROOK. LAGE CURTAIN DISPLAY CABINET.

APPLIGATIOH FILED AUG. 20, 1906.

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CHARLES B. WESTBRQOK, F NEWTON, IOWA.

LAoE-cunTAlN-DisPLAY oABlNET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application tiled August 20, 1906. Serial No` 335,308.

To @ZZ w/'Lo'm it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES B. WEST- BROOK, a citizen cf the United States, residing at Newton, in the county cf Jasper and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Lace-Curtain-Display Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide improved, simple, strong, durable, convenient, and cliicient means in a portable cabinet for concealing and protecting lace curtains and. like line textile fabrics, and specially adapted for displaying suoli merchandise in a store to customers whenever desired.

My invention consists in the structure hereinafter set "forth, painted out in vmy claim7 and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a tcp view of the cabinet in an open position. The top beard covers ot' the two parts are removed. .Dotted lines indi` cate curtain-bearers hinged to the hinged sections ci the cabinet, that can be swungtut and separated as required to display curtains suspended thereon. Fig. 2 is an inside face view clE one clt the sections cf the cabinet and i sl'iows how brackets or curtain-bearers are pivotally and adiuslably cnnnecled with the backs of the cabinet-sectlons by means of square flat boards or carriers hinged to the inner sides of the trout edges ol the backs of the hinged sectitns.

rlhe numerals designate the closed back walls, 12 the bottoms, 13 the tops, 14 the rear upright parts, and 15 the front upright parts, of the two sections of the cabinet, that are hinged together, as shown in Fig. l, or in any suitable way in such a manner that they can be turned apart required to open and close the cabinet at pleasure.

lt is obvious that the cabinet may vary in size and be made ci boards or other suitable material and used lFor protecting and displaying smaller articles of textile goods than curtains.

lVhen used lor lace curtains, the sections are preferably seven feet high, live feet wide, and twelve inches at their sides, tops, and bottoms.

The two sections are hinged together at thc inner edges iff their rear upright parts 14 by hinges 16, and 17 is a latchdevicecrturn-button (.n thc front upright 15 for fastening the two sections together when in a closed position.

Square 'flat boards 18 are hinged direct to the top end porti-:ins rf the front edges cf the rear uprights 14 by hinges 19, as is required, in order to be folded into the sections or turned outward, as is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. v1, and to the faces of these hinged bt ards are pivotally connected a plurality ci brackets or curtain-bearers 2() by means of Yfixed hinge-irons 21 and rods 22, as shown in Fig. 2, or in any suitable way in such a manner that the curtain-bearers will extend horizontally relative to their hinged supports 2O and the hinged cabinet-sections.

(lords 23, having weights 24 at their free ends are attached to the tops of the insides of the rear walls rif the hinged sections in such a manner that they will normally retain the i curtain-bearers 2() close together in. parallel position. To swing a curtain-bearer outward and away from the others, as required for displaying a curtain hanging thereon, the cord must be lifted to allow the curt ain-bearer lo be moved outward and away from the others.

Casters 25 are attached to the bottoms 12 of the two hinged sections to facilitate their movements relative to each other and also for moving about the entire cabinet.

Having thus set forth the purposes of my invention and its construction and manner of use, the practical operation and utility thereof is obvious.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ,is-

A cabinet for lace curtains and the' like comprising two sections each composed of a bottom, a top, two straight sides and a back all fixed together and the top sections hinged together at the front edges of their rear upright sides, a ilat board hinged direct to the top portion of each of said upright sides to sw ing horizontally and a plurality of curtainbearers pivotally connected direct with said hinged boards to swing horizontally, cords fixed to the hinged sections under their tops to extend over the 'lrce end portions of the curtain-bearers and weights on their ends, to retain the curtain-bearers together in parallel position, as set forth.

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